Congress Voting Independence

1859-1906

Edward Savage

Artist, American, 1761 - 1817

Robert Edge Pine

Artist After, American, 1730 - 1788

Edward Savage, after Robert Edge Pine

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    stipple, engraving and etching in black on heavyweight wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

  • Dimensions

    image: 47.94 × 65.25 cm (18 7/8 × 25 11/16 in.)
    plate: 55.25 × 69.85 cm (21 3/4 × 27 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 59.06 × 74.3 cm (23 1/4 × 29 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.598

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1951

  • They Gave Us Freedom, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1951

1953

  • The Printmaker's America, Corcoran Gallery of Art ,Washington, DC; American Federation of Arts (Tour of Europe), 1953-1954

2016

  • Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 14.

Inscriptions

lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: Maxwell Fund 49.37

Wikidata ID

Q77012604

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